People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — Change the Constitution. [ARTICLE]

Change the Constitution.

Either the constitution needs changing, else we need a change of judges to interpret it. However, as far as it goes, we have no doubt the constitution is all right. The constitution at the time of its adoption was sufficient to cover all emergencies that might have arisen under the conditions of that day. Besides that the right of amending it was left open as a means of adapting it to the growth and development of new conditions. Our forefathers expected their descendants to be capable of governing themselves, and never anticipated that a time would ever come when this country would be ruled by gigantic railroad and other corporations, nor that the original constitution itself would be twisted and misconstrued so as to give advantage to the rich and greedy. If our constitution were amended so as to make plain its bearing on the great institutions upon which our commerce has become dependent, it would probably relieve the millionaires of a great deal of expense in buying decisions of courts, and remove temptation from their benevolent souls. The corporations as they have grown up have been very careful to provide statute law's for their own benefit—but the common people must not have any laws for their benefit. Oh, no that would be unconstitutional. But please tell us of any law advocated by corporations and trusts that was ever declared by lb? courts to be unconstitutional.